OAKLAND — A 70-year-old man was shot and killed while sitting in his pickup truck in West Oakland Wednesday morning, police said.

Yancy Johnson was shot about 8:20 a.m. in the 3700 block of West Street, a quarter-block from West MacArthur Boulevard. He was taken to a hospital, where he died at 9:08 a.m., authorities said.

Johnson was a facilities manager and facilities engineer for the owners of two buildings, one an imaging services facility on Telegraph Avenue where Alta Bates Medical Center leases space, and one a medical office building on Regent Street in Berkeley. The owners of those buildings were not immediately available for comment.

The motive for the shooting was not immediately known, and no arrests have been made.

The death was Oakland’s 24th homicide of the year.

Anyone with information about the slaying should call Oakland police at 510-238-3821 or Crimes Stoppers of Oakland at 510-777-8572 or 510-777-3211.

Harry Harris is a Pulitzer Prize winning breaking news reporter for the Bay Area News Group. He began his Oakland Tribune career in September 1965 as a 17-year-old copyboy. He became a reporter in 1972 and is considered one of the best crime and breaking news reporters in the country. He has covered tens of thousands of murders and other crimes in the East Bay. He has also mentored dozens of young reporters, some of whom continue to work in journalism today.